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Community Services

Community Services include organisations whose primary goal is to support individual or community well-being and to meet the needs of vulnerable and at-risk community members. A diverse range of sectors exist within the Community Services industry in Queensland. Such services include but are not limited to:

 

  • Family, youth and children's services
  • Disability services
  • Mediation and counselling services
  • Aged and community care services
  • Social welfare or community planning services
  • Community mental health services
  • Advocacy services
  • Emergency services

 

 

 

 

 

Workforce Council also works with schools, vocational education institutions, higher education institutions/providers, registration boards, professional bodies, peak associations and unions who provide services for the Community Services Industry.

 

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  • Aged and Community Care

    Aged and Community Care

    Aged and community care services make up a large and diverse sector that has links to both the Health and Community Services industries. Together, Health and Community Services represent the second-largest industry in Australia, employing more than 1,146,000 people as at February 2009 - or 10.6% of the Australian workforce. Of these workers, approximately 22% work in the aged and community care sector.

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  • Children's Services

    Children's Services

    Children's Services represents one sector in the diverse Health and Community Services industries in Queensland. Health and Community Services is the second largest industry in Australia, employing 1,146,300 people (or 10.6 per cent of the total workforce) as at February 2009 (Skills Info, 2010).

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  • Disability

    Disability

    Disability Services represents one sector of the diverse Health and Community Services industries in Queensland.

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  • Other Community Services

    Other Community Services

    Community Services include organisations whose primary goal is to support individual or community well-being and to meet the needs of vulnerable and at-risk community members.

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